Stressed ? Read it..

Commenting on others is easy and for many it's entertaining, but analyzing oneself is far difficult and pointing out this fact in a given situation is again more difficult. Unless we understand ourselves, happiness would be a distance
dream always. We are governed by our brain and heart and I feel, both
are programmed by our past actions and reactions. While on one side we
tend to listen logic, on other side we are more comfortable with emotions. This is irony and simultaneously blessings in disguise too, I would say. Now there is a big question, why stress makes inroads in our life ?

Broadly, we can say there are two major stresses :
1. Temporary or Situational
2. Prolonged or self created

Let's
talk about Temporary or situational stress. When some situation develops and it disturbs anyone's comfort, it's a stress for him. There
are lots of examples like unemployment, ruined relationship, polluted
environment, increased expenses, failed in an examination and so on.

What
are prolonged or self adopted stresses? In clear and very plain words I
would say, when we develop habits of self fighting, it leads to
prolonged or self adopted stresses. In such cases, people are living in
their own perceptions and among these perceptions they make hyper
permutations and combinations. Many times you might have seen people,
though listening, but not able to answer as their whole inner world is
busy waging a war with themselves. These types of people often
apprehend situations which are not real, most of the time. That's why I
name it a self-created stress.

So how we brace up to overcome
stress? We have to be realistic and pragmatic while dealing with both
these stresses. On certain occasions, situation seems logical and sometime it is
an outcome ofsheer emotions. Logical situations are easy to handle while
emotional situations are pretty challenging. We must get ready to
understand what can be changed in life or what not able to be. What has to
be accepted as it is and what not. There are both problems and
solutions. One needs to see what is required and what is desired. The crux
of the whole discussion is that at any point of time, if we are able to
realize that are we fighting with our own or not. Our thought process would
get more rational. The moment our thoughts become rational, lots of
fears hidden inside of our memory slots gets deleted and we start
conquering these stresses.